All William S. Burroughs Quotes
Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
William S. Burroughs
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The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do.
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Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.
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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
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I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
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The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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